thanks! I figured there must be others out there with parents or grandparents who fought for 'the other side' ...it can upset some people though so I am usually pretty quiet about this aspect of our families past. people hear 'ss' and they think of death camps and the holocaust. there was so much more to the ss though than that.

Kate

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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility:but when the blast of war blows in our ears,then imitate the action of the tiger;stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;then lend the eye a terrible aspect. William Shakespeare